Habitat

There's no better way to cause trouble than to talk about 'firsts'. Say for instance that King's Quest IV featured the first female adventure character, and you're probably going to be drowned out by some pedant waving a copy of Infocom's Plundered Hearts in your face. That pedant may even be me. Of course, that's nothing compared to the folly of calling, say, Everquest the…

Our Alec had a fair bit of fun (with a few reservations) when he pootled around space in a ship built from burger bars, buses, T. rex heads, and rockets with Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit. But as wacky as ships can be in the spaceborne RTS now, they're nothing compared to what the Internet will surely add. As Habitat moves through Early Access,…

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit is a strategy/simulation/survival game about constructing an improbable spacecraft out of debris floating in a post-disaster Earth's orbit. It's out on Early Access now. The first time you move is incredible. You've slowly built this absurd, rickety contraption of rockets, buses, burger restaurants, fire-breathing animatronic T-Rex heads and cruise liners, and it looks like a stiff breeze would tear…

I'm extremely unhappy that Nathan posted about Habitat when it was announced back in February, because as our resident American he was not able to make a joke about a defunct British chain of expensive homeware stores. But it's OK, here I am now, brimful of vacuous references to pine chairs and overcomplicated colanders. Everything's going to be OK. ... Yeah, I'm out. Actually, Nathan…

The second I finished watching Gravity and firing the contents of my stomach out of my mouth's airlock, I knew someone would turn that experience into a game. The movie, I mean. Not the projectile vomiting. I did not, however, think base-building strategy would be the first to make me think, "Hey, that reminds me of the part where it felt like my heart took…